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| Angels & Airwaves | |
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| File:AngelsandAirwaves2011pg(1).jpg Angels and Airwaves performing at Hyde Park in June 2006. | |
| Background Information | |
| Also known as | AvA |
| Origin | San Diego, California, USA |
| Genres | Alternative rock, space rock, new prog |
| Years Active | 2005-Presnet |
| Labels | Geffen, Suretone, Independent - Adventure Intermedia, To the Stars |
| Website | angelsandairwaves.com |
| Associated Acts | Blink-182,Box Car Racer |
| Extra Information | |
| Current Members | Tom DeLonge |
| Former Members | Ryan Sinn
Atom Willard |
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Angels & Airwaves is a project led by Blink-182 guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge, also including guitarist David Kennedy from Over My Dead Body, Hazen Street and Box Car Racer, bassist Matt Wachter from 30 Seconds to Mars and former Lostprophets and Nine Inch Nails drummer Ilan Rubin.
Former original members are bass guitarist Ryan Sinn (formerly of The Distillers), who left the group in 2007 for still unclear reasons, as well as drummer Adam "Atom" Willard (formerly of The Offspring), who amicably parted ways with the band in fall 2011 after completion of their most recent album.
The group has been described by Delonge as more than a band but more accurately "an art project [that approaches] larger human themes and tackles them in different mediums", or simply "a multimedia project". This has been seen in the group's films, live events, and novel approach to fan-artist interaction.
For the half-decade of the band's existence, they have established themselves as extremely prolific artists, having released four studio albums We Don't Need to Whisper (2006), I-Empire (2007) and Love (2010) and Love II (2011). The project also resulted in a documentary Start the Machine (2008). In 2011, the group released the sci-fi movie Love, accompanying the aforementioned albums and directed by William Eubank, in 460 theatres nationwide during their multimedia event, L☽∀E LIVE. Tom Delonge has said in an interview that the band is working on two new films with two studio albums.
Influences and themes
The group has been described by Delonge as more than a band but more accurately "an art project [that approaches] larger human themes and tackles them in different mediums", or simply "a multimedia project". This has been seen in the group's films, live events, and novel approach to fan-artist interaction.
On the first two albums, the band state that they are mainly influenced by the music of Radiohead and Pink Floyd, combining them with the grandiosity of U2. On the first album, Tom Delonge stated that the album would be "the best music in generations", but afterwards admitted that during this time he had addiction to painkillers. Love albums show further blending of the band's musical aspirations of epic and grandiosity and the cultural revolution in the digital era.
Tom: "You can do anything you want in life, anything at all. If you have the slightest bit of risk and if you have the slightest bit of ambition, [...] not only can you change the world around yourself, you might just change the world itself. This isn't about what is cool or not cool, what is punk or not punk. This is about not being an asshole and trying to do something better than yourself. I hear a lot of shit about rock bands pretending they're fucking angry, rock bands pretending they're fucking rebellious. I think, i'm gonna be an optimistic, and I think I'm gonna feel fucking good!"